Mariners can't hold onto early lead in 4-3 loss to Blue Jays

Ryan Divish, The Seattle Times on Aug 29, 2026

Published in Baseball

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TORONTO — The stunned confusion displayed by Eduard Bazardo as Brett Bateman slid into home just behind him in the fifth inning is basically how fans have felt watching the Seattle Mariners continue to find new ways to lose this season.

There was nothing bewildering about the Mariners’ 4-3 loss to the Toronto Blue Jays on Saturday afternoon.

They took an early lead, didn’t add any runs and then watched as mistakes and free bases led to their downfall.

The most notable came when Bazardo uncorked a pitch to the backstop with two outs and the bases loaded in the fifth inning.

Myles Straw jogged home as the free run, but Bateman, who was on second and running on the pitch, never stopped.

Cal Raleigh hustled back to grab the wayward pitch and saw Bateman racing home. He flipped the ball to Bazardo, who had no clue what was going on. He caught the ball and only realized that Bateman was trying to score when he slid into him.

The two runs cut the Mariners’ lead 3-2.

Jose A. Ferrer, who also walked a pair of hitters, gave up the lead in the sixth.

Meanwhile the Mariners hitters did nothing after the fourth inning.

In his second MLB start and his first on the road, Kade Anderson looked perfectly comfortable on the mound, giving the Mariners a solid if not lengthy start.

Working on a pitch limit of roughly 80 pitches, Anderson held the Blue Jays’ lineup, which featured eight right-handed hitters, without a run over the first four innings.

Anderson wouldn’t make it out of the fifth. He struck out Daz Cameron, but allowed Straw to reach on an infield single and then walked the left-handed hitting Bateman on five pitches, which ended his outing.

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